Webuquerque

New Mexico Adobe User Group for Web Practitioners

Standards & Accessibility With Dreamweaver

Webuquerque in May ‘09

Adobe's Dreamweaver CS4 is a powerful WYSIWYG editor for developing and designing web sites. But it is important to know how to best utilize Dreamweaver so that your sites are standards-compliant and accessible.

Join Virginia DeBolt and Emily Lewis as they discuss the principles of web standards and accessibility, and demonstrate how to use Dreamweaver to achieve both. You will learn:

About Dreamweaver's CSS-based templates, which have been tested across all major browsers

About Device Central for testing and previewing your sites in moble browsers

How to create accessible forms

About the importance of semantic markup and how to overwrite generated markup that isn't semantic

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About Our Speakers

Emily Lewis

Emily is freelance web designer who specializes in front-end design and development. She is passionate about community building and knowledge sharing, which is why she co-founded Webuquerque in 2009 and co-managed the group for three years. She also blogs about web standards, accessibility, usability and more at A Blog Not Limited.

Virginia DeBolt

Virginia DeBolt was the writer for the latest edition of Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 Classroom in a Book. She wrote some new lessons and revised some of the previous lessons for the book. She is also the author of Mastering Integrated HTML and CSS.